Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), October 2014

by: jpwagner
text: (part-time or full-time)<p>Trill - Boston &#x2F; Cambridge MA (open to REMOTE) -- <a href="http://trill.me/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trill.me&#x2F;</a><p>Trill helps you find local live shows (currently in its pilot city of Boston) and everything that happens on a stage (music, theater, comedy, dance, etc).<p>We are super early stage, seed funded, and focused on the following 3 value props: (1) provide a very complete db of live shows (2) provide value to event venues and producers by getting them access to data about their audience (3) allow for a complete integration of event discovery&#x2F;one-click-buy&#x2F;transportation from your phone.<p>We are looking for a few awesome contributors:<p>(1) We need a UI development expert: bootstrap3, handlebars, javascript wizardry.<p>(2) We need a growth hacker with a focus on inbound marketing.<p>(3) We are quickly growing and would love to talk to people interested in our vision with any assortment of amazing abilities (django&#x2F;python-related a plus!)<p>Please reach out to careers@trill.me or to me personally at &lt;my-hn-username&gt; [at] trill [dot] me

by: czerwin
text: San Francisco Bay Area, REMOTE is acceptable<p>Windows Python programmer with focus on creating Windows Services<p><a href="https://www.scalyr.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scalyr.com</a><p>We are an early stage startup building a log management, monitoring, and alerting service based on our experience running cloud services at Google.  We are seeking a freelancer to adapt the agent program that our customers run on their servers to collect system metrics and server logs.  It is written in Python and currently runs on Linux so we are looking to adapt it for Windows.<p>This is a great opportunity to work with a small, very engineering-focused company at an early stage of development working with very interesting technologies.  The project will have a big impact on our customers.  Plus, the agent is open sourced so this work benefits the community and will give the developer something they can point at for future employers.  Finally, this project could result in more ongoing work in the months &#x2F; years to come.<p>The main tasks will include:<p>* Create a build process that will bundle the Python agent as a Windows executable and run it as a Windows service (using something like py2exe)<p>* Create an installer<p>* Develop a mechanism to allow our users to easily update the agent when new releases are made<p>* Write code to collect relevant system metrics from the Windows server<p>We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:<p>* Windows expert, focusing on Window Services and best practices<p>* Have built Windows executables from Python on previous projects<p>* Have created installers for Windows<p>* Must be willing to provide ongoing support (which we will pay for as needed)<p>Interested?  Email contact@scalyr.com with resume and brief description of how your background matches our candidate requirements.

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. OpenCraft - Open Source developer on edX (Worldwide, company based in France)<p>Consultancy specialized on the edX project, and hiring to handle increasing demand. edX is a free software project, used by various universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, class.stanford.edu, france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr for examples of edX instances.<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing custom features for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing instances, developing generic platform features, deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>A large part of your work would be published as free software (edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>You would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Applying: Email jobs@opencraft.com with: your github account, a short explanation of why you&#x27;re interested and a list of links to free software contributions you have made.

by: silverlight
text: REMOTE<p>Roll20 is looking for an independent contractor to help us work on a few new features. We&#x27;d want to hire you for 30-40 hours per week, and this is a long-term engagement (as in, at least the next 6 months, and possibly longer). It&#x27;s 100% remote, we operate currently in Pacific, Central, and Eastern time zones so there&#x27;s a lot of flexibility.<p>We&#x27;re looking for a junior to mid-level person who has experience with Javascript, Canvas, and HTML5 tech such as WebGL and WebRTC. Your main job will be to help us expand the service by building new features under the direction of our Lead Developer (me), and then do a few other miscellaneous tasks such as basic tech support and possibly some very light Linux server administration (if you know how to SSH into a server you&#x27;re more than qualified for that part of it).<p>Our stack is:<p>Javascript<p>Ruby (Padrino)<p>PostreSQL<p>NodeJS<p>Firebase<p>If you&#x27;re interested in taking this on, send an email to jobs@roll20.net with a brief introduction as well as a link to your previous work (e.g. a Github profile) and your hourly rate. Mention that you saw the ad on HN and we&#x27;ll put you at the top of the list.<p>Thanks!

by: kylequest
text: REMOTE or Seattle<p>Need help with the frontend (development and design). It&#x27;ll be great if you know your way around Angular.js and CoffeeScript.  Open to do a quick rewrite with a different stack if you can pull it off (quite a bit there already).<p>Need help in many other areas too (if you use python, Go, node, JVM).<p>Early stage, bootstrapped, you know what that means :-)<p>Project focus: security, identity, user account management.<p>What&#x27;s so interesting about the project: Redefining user account security to protect users from attackers. The standard user account management (you see everywhere) is insecure, but it doesn&#x27;t have to be that way.<p>Seeking freelancers or partners if you want to get more involved with the project :-)<p>ping me on twitter or email: hn@cloudimmunity.net

by: amanda5885
text: Remote C# .NET developer<p>- Strong understanding of networking, routing, firewalls, inter-process communication, threads<p>- Experience with XAML and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)<p>- Experience with Objective-C&#x2F;Cocoa preferable<p>- Mac development experience with Xamarin.Mac or Xcode and Cocoa (and Objective-C and C to a lesser extent) highly desirable<p>- Understanding of the “netsh advfirewall” (Windows) and “pfctl” (Mac) commands for manipulating firewall rules desirable<p>- Understanding DHCP, DNS leaks, and DNS resolver configuration on Windows (IP Helper API) and Mac (scutil) desirable<p>If you&#x27;re interested please contact me at my email address listed in my profile.

by: kefeizhou
text: New York City (preferred) or Remote
Looking for part-time experienced web dev (Python, AngularJS) to help us build technology for sales teams. 
Prefer someone with strong frontend skills who might be open to joining full-time in the future. 
If interested, send an email to dan at marketir.com with a brief intro, sample projects and hourly rates.

by: rcodesmith
text: in Chicago area.<p>We&#x27;re looking for JavaScript developers with experience building systems based on Node.js and JavaScript UI technologies (e.g. AngularJS, React.js, Polymer).<p>To find out more, look us up at:
<a href="http://encanto.github.io/blog/encanto-engineering/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;encanto.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;encanto-engineering&#x2F;</a>

by: chatmasta
text: I&#x27;m in New Haven CT, partner in Taiwan. Remote ok.<p>We are starting a new kind of VPN company. We need help in all phases of coding. If you are an expert in any of the following, shoot me an email with your qualifications and interests, and we can discuss more:<p>Python (flask), Ansible, Softether, C++, TomatoOS, Tor, Javascript, OpenWRT<p>Email: miles@5280holdings.com

by: trounce
text: Remote<p>Rails full stack, with a focus on the front end<p>I&#x27;ve been building two mobile-first Rails web apps using contractors for several months. The apps work and I have a good senior back-end Rails developer working for me adding new features. But I now need a new senior full-stack Rails developer to help me upgrade&#x2F;reinvent the UI&#x2F;UX - particularly, making the apps look better, easier to use, faster loading, the flows more intuitive, and helping user onboarding. I need someone with very strong HTML5&#x2F;CSS3&#x2F;JS development skills along with full-stack Rails, to build out my ideas and improve performance.<p>The developer needs to be able to make changes directly to the Rails apps, including adding and changing automated Capybara&#x2F;Test::Unit integration tests. Consumer-facing UI&#x2F;UX design experience and interest is a plus, but is not required.<p>I&#x27;m looking for someone full-time, paid hourly&#x2F;weekly, to work with me and the back-end engineer in a very agile, collaborative way, to improve the product and get it launched. I need the right person for several months.<p>Ideal candidate:
* Computer science or engineering undergraduate degree
* Several years experience developing web apps in Rails
* Interest in consumer-focused apps and friendly UI&#x2F;UX
* Based in North or South America, for good time zone overlap with West Coast US each day for iterative&#x2F;agile development
* Independent, not agency
* Fast written English for live text chat
* Interest in helping to shape a consumer product, rather than just building against specifications
* Possibility of joining as a founding employee in due course<p>I&#x27;m a self-funding, hands-on, full-time sole founder, with a strong business and computer science background. I&#x27;m based in Silicon Valley, and the ideal person would be based in North or South America, to give substantial time zone overlap for collaboration via live chat (HipChat).<p>The stack:
* Rails 4
* Bootstrap 3
* Javascript and JQuery. No front end framework currently in place
* PostgreSQL (relational) and DynamoDB (NoSQL) databases<p>It&#x27;s mostly a server-side Rails apps that need some JS&#x2F;JQuery for user input, validation, page transitions, widget integration<p>Target:
* Primarily HTML5 mobile web - primarily small screen sizes, iOS and Android devices
* It needs to work (but not necessarily be optimized&#x2F;responsive for) desktop and tablet too<p>Tools:
* Git for version control
* GitHub for code hosting
* Code Climate for automated code quality review 
* CodeShip for automated testing
* Heroku for app hosting
* Amazon RDS and DynamoDB for database hosting
* Amazon CloudFront for CDN
* HipChat for chat
* Trello for project management<p>Target compensation: $35&#x2F;hour, i.e. $1,400&#x2F;week for full-time<p>David &lt;at&gt; lab955 dot com